Total skin electron radiation for patients with erythrodermic cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (mycosis fungoides and the sezary syndrome)

Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1985-1995

  Jones, Glenn W ^a,d   Rosenthal, Donald ^b   Wilson, Lynn D ^c  

^a CANCER CARE ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cutaneous T cell lymphoma; Mycosis fungoides; Prognosis; Radiotherapy; Survival; The Sezary syndrome; Total skin electron beam

Indexed keywords

CARMUSTINE; CHLORMETHINE; INTERFERON; PSORALEN; RETINOID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRON RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; SEZARY SYNDROME; SKIN LYMPHOMA; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTRONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; SEZARY SYNDROME; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033134973     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990501)85:9<1985::AID-CNCR16>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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